The Apprentice Finale.............

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I really don't care who wins....don't much care for either of them.

I love the show, so I will watch, but I feel like Raj....."who cares?" lol

Kelly seems a better candidate, but has a pompous way about him..I don't find him very likeable like Bill and Kwame were.....Jen has virtually no discernable personality...she is a blank to me.

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*giggles.....telling Professor Scoops of Reality TV..that I will be watching the DONALD tonight....ONLY because REGIS will be on the show...*smile

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At TVGuideOnline, there is an interview with Sandy, and she said that the last boardroom we just saw took 4 hours!!!! She said she was pretty sure she was staying......she can't believe he took Jen over her -- it seemed to be as much because she has more education as the experience........

And, she tells a great story about her bridal shop.....and the man who came in to buy a dress.... :)

It's in the insider......for today.....

Aw, heck....here's the article:

Apprentice's Sandy Disses "Fembot" Rival
by Matt Webb Mitovich




Sandy



Are you a hot-blooded male eager for The Apprentice's candy-bar peddling "M&M Sisters" to tour your town this spring? We recommend you just plop down your 65 cents at 7-Eleven instead. Because as 28-year-old Sandy Ferreira — who got fired last week with Kevin Allen — "plain"-ly tells TV Guide Online here, it's "nuts" that Jennifer M. made it to the final two with Kelly. Plus, the bridal salon owner lets loose with a whopper of a boardroom secret!

TV Guide Online: Ivana pegged Jennifer M. as a "fembot," while you once described her as "plastic... like a mannequin." Yet you must admit, "Barbie" was armed for bear in last week's boardroom.
Sandy Ferreira: Well, let me give you a little insight: That final boardroom, once Kevin got fired, was four hours long. Trump dismissed us — Kelly, Jen and myself — into the lobby area three times because he could not make a decision. Essentially, Carolyn and George were encouraging Trump to fire Jen and bring me into the final two. That was the first time that [viewers] never saw Mr. Trump ask George and Carolyn their opinion, because it wasn't convenient for the producers to show it. So when people are like, "Why didn't you defend yourself?"...I didn't think I had to. I was relying on my performance from the past 14 weeks to advance me, not a screaming match.

TVGO: When Kevin was fired, did you think you and Kelly were the final two?
Sandy: I was like, "Oh, this is easy. I'm in the final two, no problem." But at the end of the day, I couldn't pull a degree out of thin air and that's what Mr. Trump wanted.





TVGO: You and other Apprentice babes posed for Maxim, but Jennifer M. didn't. Should that have been our first clue that she'd made it further?
Sandy: No, no. All of the women had the opportunity — including Stacy R., Elizabeth, Ivana... A lot of people didn't pose. There's no correlation.

TVGO: Who conducted the toughest corporate interview during your final task?
Sandy: They were all brutal. I got questions ranging from "What are your strengths and weaknesses?" to "Why is a manhole round?"
TVGO: (Proudly) It's so the cover can't fall through the street.
Sandy: (Chuckles) I think the interviews were all equally difficult, but I think that Alan Jope [COO of Unilever HPC] was quite tough on me.

TVGO: Did anyone grill you about listing Can't Buy Me Love amongst your all-time favorite films?
Sandy: No. I don't think they had that much inside info on me. (Laughs)

TVGO: You and Jennifer M. really cleaned up as the M&M Sisters. But what was the crudest response you got when soliciting NYC construction-worker types?
Sandy: (Adopting a gruff male voice) "I'll pay you two to watch you eat the candy bar!"

TVGO: Those guys can be so clever. So what was your reaction to Ivana's stripping to sell her candy bars? She claims what you did wasn't that different.
Sandy: I felt a little vindicated because she was calling us strippers, and she ended up taking her clothes off. Initially, I was like, "Wow, I would never do that. It's taking the women's lib movement back a couple decades." But I respect her for being so competitive. She did it to win.

TVGO: Are you helping Ivana at all with her forthcoming wedding?
Sandy: Yeah, we're working together to try to get her a fabulous gown.

TVGO: Andy told us that during the Pepsi Edge task, he really didn't drink as much pop as the editing made it seem. True or false?
Sandy: That's a lie! (Laughs) He did! I wouldn't have said that if he didn't. It was so funny. The funny thing is we had a pantry full of Pepsi Edge in the suite and not one person touched it because we were scared — no one knew what it was!

TVGO: Share with us your most colorful "day in life of bridal salon owner" anecdote.
Sandy: Having a man come in to try on wedding gowns, and not be on Candid Camera. He wore like a size 14, and had his chest hair coming through the lace. It was unbelievable!

TVGO: Regarding your fate on The Apprentice, I guess there is that saying in your biz: "Always a bridesmaid, never a bride."
Sandy: This is how I feel: I would rather be in the final three — and be well-liked and have the support of the viewers and my fans — than be in the final two and have people criticize me for not deserving to be there. So I'm very happy. I would not want to be in the final two and be in Jen's position.

TVGO: Ouch. I'm sensing that, in your case, M&M's didn't make friends?
Sandy: It's nothing personal. I didn't go on the show to make friends, but to win. I just feel that Jen did only enough to get by, to not be accountable for anything. You associate The Apprentice with very competitive, type A personalities, and when you shove somebody like her in there, you're like, "Where did you come from?!"

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Interesting interview, thanks for sharing..I was wondering what Georg and Carolyn thought.

I didn't really think Sandy was all that deserving either, ( better than Jen, but not better than Kevin, imo)....so she excelled on the bridal competition? .....it was tailor made for her.......the other competitions she seemed no better than anyone else. I liked Kevin, but guess it would have looked too much like a Bill/Kwame replay.

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This pretty well says it for me... But I left as soon as the obvious winner was announced... Regis should have brought his own makeup person, too... Why does "His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!" come to mind?

Geez, it was too long at 2 hours, I can't imagine sitting through all three, not even for Reege (whose purpose there I never really figured out, anyway)... I am glad I missed Omarosa, LOL...

At least the premise for next year sounds like it has some promise.. We won't have long to wait, I see...

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PK


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On ''The Apprentice,'' the robot beats the fembot: Friends, colleagues, and assorted lackeys gather to hug Kelly and smack down Jen

by Whitney Pastorek

Those of you who survived tonight's Most. Bloated. Episode. Of. Television. Ever., I salute you. You know they're reaching when Sugar Ray Leonard shows up. By the third hour of this finale, I no longer cared who won (Kelly, duh), who lost (Jen, who someone should have on suicide watch), or how many times Regis Philbin could embarrass himself (somewhere in the hundreds, although I stopped counting after he mispronounced Ivana's name for the fourth time). I just wanted the pain to end.

Here's the problem with tonight: I went to the wrap party before I watched the episode. I wasn't going to go — I have responsibilities! I cannot be out whooping it up! — but then the promise of seeing these circus freaks up close won out over my desire to get sleep, and I found myself standing in the middle of the Roseland Ballroom at 1:30 a.m. watching Omarosa and Kwame dance to OutKast and wondering how my life got like this. Not much to report from the party, really, except that everyone is freakishly tall and when you see Raj ''reporting'' for this evening's Access Hollywood, you should know that Billy Bush was standing just off-camera feeding him questions, and I totally chickened out on my plan to grab him by the bow tie and tell him how I really feel. (Insert bad flashbacks from junior prom here.)

Heartbroken, I settled in at 3 a.m. to watch the show, which I'd now like to officially dub ''Trump International Make Jen M. Feel Like an Ass Night.'' The poor girl was doomed from the start — I knew it when I saw that portentous smiley face back on Chris' knee (which I just realized very well may be some sort of horribly misguided tattoo) — and her whole basketball fiasco turned out to be flat and dull and lacking in electricity, both literally and metaphorically. Meanwhile, over in pony land, the hyperactive firees provided some of the best lines of the entire season. (Geese and frogs, singing together! Plus, Magellan discovered Kinko's, and Raj brilliantly summed up Kelly's merits as ''He understands, to an extent, human beings.'') Tony Bennett managed to survive a bathroom in which six goats allegedly puked, and the entire thing inexplicably led Kelly to sort of paraphrase Rudyard Kipling. Strictly based on editing, it was pretty clear who was gonna win.

But then we moved to our final Boardroom, where all the booted minions arrived to give their assessments of the finalists (everyone, in a massive coincidence that I'm confident was in no way staged, wearing some sort of pink), and it became even clearer who was destined to come out on top. No, not Trump's hair (it looked a little mangy, actually — time for a trip to the vet?) but rather Cub Scout Kelly, whose team managed to overcome their bitterness just the teensiest bit more in support of their leader, and whose strong, silent act just made Jen look more like a total fembitch in comparison. It hurts me to say it, because I was totally on board her radar-ducking plane, but that woman really is (yes, George) abrasive as hell.

How long was this show? By the time we got around to the live portion of the evening, Carolyn's hair had grown three inches. And as Jen perched on the loveseat, mentally sawing at her wrists with a steak knife, person after person emerged from the studio audience to pick their winner. A quick tally:

Apprentice 1 winner Bill Rancic: Kelly.

George substitute Allen: Kelly.

Shrek: Kelly.

Trump COO Matthew Calamari: Hates Jen's guts but unable to articulate why, freezes up in one of the greatest moments of live television I've seen since the Ashlee Simpson lip-synch, probably still weeping in a bathroom somewhere.

Season 1 Amy, apparently now serving as CEO of flamingos: Kelly.

Kelly's boss: Kelly.

Kelly's friends and neighbors: Kelly.

Jen's boss: Somewhat catatonic, but I think he voted for Jen.

Jen's friends and neighbors: Mostly just happy to be on TV.

And then I stopped keeping track. I remember Hottie John standing up for Our Lady of the Permasmile, which was sweet, and I remember Pamela saying lovely things and proving for the gazillionth time that in a world not run by crazy monkey people, she would have won it all, but other than that — holy crap, what a bloodbath. Jen deserves mad props for not walking out. (I'm talking to you, Survivor all-star Jerri Manthey.) I sort of wish she had. No one should have to go through a complete and total character assassination on national television.

So, yeah, congrats, Kelly! You're the big winner, and some nice shackles have been arranged for you in the dungeon next to Bill's. I'd like to congratulate you on overcoming ever so many obstacles — challenging tasks, long hours, the existence of Ivana — to triumph in the end. I'd also like to congratulate you for somehow keeping your law degree and your M.B.A. a secret (because as we learned from Kevin, two advanced degrees = dead man). I wish you all the luck in the world during your time as a low-level figurehead in the Trump Organization.

As for the rest of them, I suppose I can only offer my congratulations on their remarkable consistency. From Stacie J.'s Subway shout-out, to Jen C., self-absorbed to the last, stealing Trump's much-deserved congratulations to the other Jen for herself (good luck with that job hunt!), to Ivana's inability to utter a complete sentence, and right through to Omarosa's Day-to-Night Barbie ensemble, these folks managed to live up to every ounce of their train-wreck entertainment potential. Extra credit goes to Kevin — whose acknowledgement of the shirtless-phone-answering stuff was genius — and Robin, who at last got out from behind that desk and managed to hold her own against the caffeinated charisma attack of Trump and Raj.

But in the end, it was us, we, you and I, people, who deserve all the prizes in the world for making it through this endless show — nay, this endless season — of unreality television. I will see you back here Jan. 20th for Apprentice 3: People Who Use Big Words Vs. People With Funny Accents. Until then, remember everything we've learned: Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer. Quitters never win, and winners never quit. It's not what you say, it's how you say it. And if you see a camera crew approaching your puppy with nail clippers, run.

What do you think? Who deserved to win? Could Kelly be any stiffer? Did Jen earn your respect? And are you looking forward to or dreading The Apprentice 3?

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Yikes!!! So what do you think he's really thinking???? :)

Actually, I thought the show was pretty good. I'm not sure they should have taken the "vote", although it was a good idea, it had to be hard for Jennifer to hear all of that "live". If that had been done last year with Bill and Kwame, it would have been better, since (I think, at least) it would have been closer, and even if Trump had picked Bill it still would have been ok....

We didn't get to hear a thing from "Blinking Maria", did we? If so, I missed it....

I so wonder what would have happened if it had been Kelly v. Sandy.....

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[PK...]

I noted that Whitney is a woman... Her article "probably" makes more sense coming from the female point of view... <grin>

I certainly agree with her about Pam... OH, Pam was Andy's Proctor when he took his finals "on set"... I thought that was interesting.. If she were my Proctor, I know I wouldn't even think of cheating... LOL... Bet she could rap a mean knuckle...

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PK

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Oops....I should NEVER assume....the thought even crossed my mind to check who authored the article, but I didn't.....

My apologies.....

Now where's the edit button on here again?????

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